Anyone who has explored out there a bit knows that the islands are extremely rugged/potentially dangerous. We need to be careful about increased access where it could lead to increased need for rescues, more possibility of lawsuits due to death/injury, and a resulting spiral into ever more and more development in the name of "safe access".

Not to mention the many Chumash sites and indigenous flora/fauna.

My vote - leave them exactly as is. Access isn't that easy, so there aren't a lot of yahoos getting into trouble.

Yet the pangas come ashore more at only a few spots, one of which being AQ.

They have to offload large cargos. Doing so next to 101 with a big truck parked there in the middle of the night would be noticeable to motorists. Far easier to pull big truck into private road or driveway. How do they get access to that?

"failure to ride as close as practicable to the right-hand curb" this goes on 24-7 around here especially with the bike racing guys in their neon spandex."

I am a cyclist, but not part of the cruiser ride and just want to point out that this goes both ways. I've been cut off, stopped in front of, had things thrown at me, and on and on, all while in the bike lane and violating nothing.

We cyclists need to follow the laws, but motorists also need to give us room as the law allows. It really comes down to giving respect in order to receive the same.

Might've helped if the local media had any sort of timely information posted, or the PG&E "outage map" had even showed an outage in this area, or the PG&E "report an outage" line had anything other than "we are unable to take your call due to system problems".

Not excusing people's idiocy at calling 911, just adding that the local media and the utility company didn't help the situation one bit.

By the time that information started to get posted, we'd long since gone to bed in the hope it'd stay off and we'd get to sleep in!